This holiday gift-giving season we have a bumper crop of cool seasonal tech to explore, across a broad range of products. So we’ll take a look at new developments in these various product categories, exploring how companies are packaging new tech and new ideas into their product lines.

Princeton Identity, a company that develops iris scanning devices, has been granted three new patents for its iris recognition technology by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office including a novel use for the technology: targeted advertisements.

The McCarter Theater appearance presentation by the Jessica Lang Dance Company on Friday, November 16, presents area audiences with the opportunity to experience the work of one of the today’s most innovative choreographers as well as ponder architecture — specifically one Princeton University building.

What in the world have we done to our planet? Two paintings at the entrance to “Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment,” on view at Princeton University Art Museum through January 6, place the big question of our era front and center.